The leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the Turkish Parliament, Ahmet Turk, created a major controversy when, on Tuesday, he became only the second person in history to speak Kurdish in the Turkish parliament, causing the state-run TRT TV channel to stop its live feed of the session, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported.
The Kurds have their own distinct language, culture, and history.
The Turks are military occupiers of sovereign Kurdish land.
As long as that situation persists, as long as one postage stamp of the Nation of Kurdistan is sullied by Turkish boots, Turkey has no right to be a part of global diplomacy, peacemarking efforts, economic coalitions, and political unions.
Boycott Turkey!
During a recent rally in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the eastern Kurdish-dominated part of Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an amnesty for banned Kurdish singers and even spoke a few words in Kurdish.
Sadly, they were not "I plead guilty to the charges of genocide and accept this court's fate."